I divided by age, and took the first 10 from each group.

[conuly]

Just finished tabulating the results, let me tell you I am *very* surprised by some of the answers. It's like hearing that your friends don't agree that *insert least favorite politician* is a creep! Well, it's done now. I just have to start presenting my case against linguistic prejudice more clearly, that's all. I'll forget this ever happened in a few days - block it from my memory.

*grins*

Okay, it's not *that* bad. But... Well, of course, I'm very anti-prescriptivist when I remember to be.

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[moggymania.livejournal.com]

In thinking about the results personally, you might also take into account other elements that could have factored into responses.

For example, I wouldn't want multiple massively-different dialects of English to spring up because CAPD makes it so I have enough trouble understanding the single one around me as it is. I'm also largely reliant upon reading for picking up new vocabulary, and considering the language we're talking about is predominantly oral, I'd not only fail to know the literal meanings, I'd be lost regarding the subtler/social meanings.

There's more, but I'm too tired to figure out how to write it. :)

[conuly]

I did actually mention the somewhat disportionate number of non-nt responses, but I didn't find that they varied significantly from the (I assume) nt replies. Of course, that doesn't mean that the reasons for the answers can't be different.